#it really is deeply amusing that this anon literally thought that would be a gotcha

[kim-ruzek]

“Stans say Jay would never, but sometimes you think you've learnt from your past mistakes and then something happens and you regress again-- everyone thinks they're moving forward until they're not.”

ok so if marina wanted to leave show and sigan wrote her character exit how she wrote jay’s exit. something traumatic happens to kim again, she push adam away again, she tell adam her and mack are going away for few months, then suddenly she shut adam out and stop responding to his calls. all of this would be in character for kim. would you be oh so understanding of sigan’s choices then? no you wouldnt. its only easy to when its not your ship. you all hated rick eid for fucking with your ship. why is it wrong for us to do same with gwen? we know jesse wanted to leave but she had choice to keep them happy married off screen. maybe put him in charge of another unit. or have them be in long distance happy marriage. if military couples can do it upstead can too!

Lmao I love how you clearly sent this me thinking it would be a gotcha but like... Yeah. I would still be understanding of Sigan's choices. Like it's literally laughable that you read what I wrote and still thought I wouldn't.

And yeah, it's easy to not be upset when it's my ship. And I would be deeply upset at that ending for Burzek because that's not how they deserve to end. But I wouldn't unfairly put that on Sigan, or get so distorted from reality that I'd think that one decision makes her a bad showrunner.

Also "it's only easy to when it's not your ship"... You say that like this is the only show I've ever watched. I know to be understanding because, fancy this, I've been through this with other shows. And I've got enough sense to know that an acting leaving when the show is still active often means these kinds of exits because the writers only really have a limited amount of options-- especially for a show like this where they don't have a contained amount of seasons they want and that's it.

It's also deeply naïve to expect them to keep them happily married off screen. If the characters personal life wasn't a part of the plot, maybe that would be more realistic but it is a plot point. And they potentially want this show to run indefinitely, so to keep them off screen is a LOT. Now look, if I was in charge of the show, and had the power to do so, and I saw in upstead what y'all see, I would've kept them long distance happily married off screen because I'm a huge believer of that's possible and could be done. But that's not how the producers and creators and writers of this show actually roll, which is what you stans don't understand.

Now I'm not saying you can't be upset. You can. I've said that all this time. You can feel sad that this is how your ship ends, especially if you see their relationship as iconic or whatever. If say either Marina or Paddy left, that would be me done with the show and it would forever leave an ache in my heart.

My criticism is just purely about the hypocrisy and the fact that you think Sigan doing her job and actually doing it quite well is...her not? Especially because even if we say agree she fumbled upstead, that's one part of the show and in all other areas she's killing it. That doesn't mean she isn't qualified, that just means in one area she lacks.

It's also like, it could've been so much worse. Like with what she had to play with, Jay/Jesse/Upstead got a good exit. Unexpected detour from the pre outline for the evolution of his character if he had stayed maybe, but the best of the options they could've gone with.

Finally "if military couples can do it, upstead can"... No one is saying long distance is unrealistic. The difference is military couples are real, upstead is a fictional ship which is unfortunately controlled by the whim of multiple out of show factors.

Also fuck off with the comparison of Sigan to Eid. As a svu and burzek fan 🖕🏽